Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 18:53:47 -0700 From: David Stevens <phylstevens-AT-worldnet.att.net> Subject: M-I: Mumia Abu-Jamal for President! Let's draft Mumia Abu-Jamal as our candidate for President of the United States. We can't change the system by voting; but we can use the soapboxes and the airtime to focus on the racist nature of capitalist class justice. A comrade recently made me look up some old stuff which reminded me of "the best electoral campaign never conducted" by Marxists in the United States, ninety years ago: "Morrie R. Preston, an official of the Industrial Workers of the World, in exercising the right to picket, was attacked by the proprietor of a restaurant the employees of which were out on strike. The propietor leveled a pistol at Preston; Preston in self-defense drew his gun and laid low the man who wanted to take his life. Class justice, capitalist class justice, declared that Preston was guilty of murder." [*] Preston got twenty-five years at hard labor. In 1908, the Socialist Labor Party nominated Morrie Preston to be its Presidential candidate. Morrie Preston wasn't up to the task; his lawyers told Preston he'd screw up his chances on appeal if he were to run for president on a platform of recognizing the very class war which had already taken him prisoner. Preston therefore refused the SLP nomination. But I very much like that SLP idea of running Preston as point-blank case of class justice on the picket line. Last year in news:alt.politics.socialism.trotsky , John Holmes and others suggested Mumia Abu-Jamal as candidate for President of the United States. I think this is an excellent idea. I hope Mumia will be free before two more years elapse. But if he is still in prison, that is simply all the more reason to make him our candidate for President. - David Stevens Freedom for the "Voice of the Voiceless!" Expose Capitalist Class Justice! Mumia Abu-Jamal for President! [*] Rudolf Katz, "With DeLeon since '89," published in "Daniel DeLeon: The Man and His Work, A Symposium," (c) 1919 New York Labor News (1969), p. 148-149. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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